T.O. WebFest and Dailymotion Team Up for Trailer Contest

May 8, 2014

T.O. WebFest has announced an online trailer contest through their Special Awards Partner Dailymotion. Dailymotion, a French video-sharing website similar to YouTube, offers five prizes of $3,000 to any series who submitted to T.O. WebFest 2014. The contest seems to double as a reward for T.O. WebFest participants creating a great trailer, and promotional push to Dailymotion. According to a press release e-mailed out from T.O. WebFest on May 7, 2014, the first requirement is for webfest participants to upload their trailer onto Dailymotion. This way Dailymotion gets an huge rush of new video uploads onto their website. Unlike the recent IPF Web Drama Series Program, the trailers that win depend entirely on the amount of views accumulated. Contestants have until May 14, 2014 at 11:59pm to be one of the top 5 trailers with the most views. The contest is open to anyone who submitted a trailer to T.O. WebFest, not just those selected for the 2014 Official Selection. The contest is a great incentive to help further promote Dailymotion, who is quickly catching up in popularity to YouTube. In fact, T.O. WebFest released their official trailer exclusively on Dailymotion. Most web series creators have preference to Dailymotion because, unlike YouTube, the website doesn’t remove your video if there’s possible copyright infringement. The T.O. WebFest Trailer for example plays off a specific scene in The Matrix Reloaded (2003). Such creative liberty on YouTube would be taken down. YouTube also has a problem if a video amasses a large amount of views in a short time. Several applicants to the 2014 IPF Web Drama Series Program had this problem, finding their trailers taken down, and their (often) thousands of views gone. But of course, Dailymotion still needs to catch up in popularity, as Google owns YouTube. This gives YouTube the search engine advantage. Post in the forum below to share the link to your trailer! For complete submission guidelines, rules, and conditions for the T.O. WebFest Online Trailer Contest click here.